Joe Survant
Joe Survant (born October 9, 1942, Owensboro, United States), aged 84, is an American Kentucky poet laureate (1942- ). Survant has served as poet laureate.
Joe Survant’s zodiac sign is Libra, Chinese zodiac is Water Horse, with Life Path 8 in numerology.
Libra, Chinese zodiac is 
Water Horse, with 
Life Path 8 in numerology.Your match with Joe
Joe Survant’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Strategist
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 8 represents mastery: ambition, resources and turning sustained effort into visible results.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 8, on the mental plane.
How common is the name Joe in the U.S.?
#994
US rank in 2025
~464,574
Americans share it since 1880
1936
its peak year
Joe ranked 33rd among boys and 480th among girls in 1942, the year of this birth, with 7,383 American boys and 236 girls on the register.
US Social Security Administration public records
What Joe’s name adds up to
Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.
1
Expression · starting things
6
Soul Urge · being needed
4
Personality · steady, dependable
The name opens on J (1) and closes on E (5). The value it repeats most is 1, which numerology reads as drive.
Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again
Joe’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.
Lucky numbers
8 · 2 · 3 · 7
Lucky colours
Blue & Black
Lucky day
Friday
Direction
↑ North
Season
winter
Stones
Opal, Diamond, Aquamarine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌹 Blush Rose · 💠 Water Lily
Amber · Blush · Moonlight white
Eight Mansions · Kua number
Kua 3, trigram Zhen 震, East group. Best direction South, worst Southwest.
A different tradition from the Direction above, and a different question: feng shui reads it from the solar year 1942, which turns at Li Chun rather than at New Year, and from sex, which Wikidata records as male. Work out your own →
The record
What sets Joe apart
Training came by way of University of Delaware.
John Lennon (1940) and Boris Nemtsov (1959) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.
- Educated at
- University of Delaware
- Languages
- English and American English
What the chart says
Joe, according to the stars
Core essence
Joe makes the room fairer just by being in it. The core of Joe is a feel for balance, in people, in colour, in who has not been asked their opinion yet. They are charming because they are genuinely interested, and they can see every side of a thing, which is a gift and, on a bad day, a very slow way to choose dinner.
The vibe
Underneath, Joe cannot fully relax while anyone in the room is unhappy. The Moon in Libra feels through harmony and hates conflict in their own house. What Joe needs to feel safe is fairness, softness and a partner in the small decisions. They are at their best when someone else picks the restaurant and they get to enjoy it.
How Joe wants to be loved
Joe wants to be loved beautifully. Venus is at home in Libra: romance, manners, the date that was actually planned, a partner who is fair and easy to be around. Joe gives a lot of grace and needs it back. Treat them like a partner in everything, including the small choices, and they bloom.
How Joe creates
How Joe makes things happen: they find the gap and grow through it. A Yin Wood day master is the vine, flexible, quietly relentless, better at working around a wall than at knocking it down. Joe creates by adapting, by connecting people, by making the awkward thing fit. Underestimate them and you will look up one day to find them everywhere.
Instinct
Instinct: Joe is free-spirited, a Horse year, and their gut reaction is to run toward the new thing. Energetic, warm, popular, honest to a fault, and impossible to keep indoors. The Water year softens it: intuitive, adaptable, feeling their way through people.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 8 is the powerhouse. Joe is here to build something big and run it well: money, influence, a body of work with their name on it. Ambitious, capable, generous when winning, and learning that power is for lifting people.
Triggers
Triggers: unfairness, and being forced to pick a side. Mars in Libra hates open conflict and will negotiate for hours to avoid it, then dig in absolutely when a principle is at stake. Joe fights for balance. The lesson is that sometimes the fair thing is to just say no.
Computed from Joe's birth date. Working below.
Where Joe sits
Six lines
Joe’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.
You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You likely weigh most decisions but can move fast when it matters.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
Tap each line where you sit.
All twelve of yours, from your birth date →✦ A real star from their birth night
Dedicate a star to Joe Survant
Three stars chosen from the real sky above Owensboro on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.
A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.
The sky over Owensboro that night
Computed for 37.76°N, 9 p.m. local sky.
Overhead at Owensboro at 9 p.m. that evening: Aljanah of Cygnus, within 9.0° of the exact zenith.
Vega was the brightest thing up that night, one of 90 catalog stars above the horizon.
From 37.8°N not one of the brightest stars stays permanently above the horizon — all of them rise and set.
Nothing below −52.2° declination clears the horizon at this latitude, so Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman were never visible from Owensboro on any night.
The Moon, 0% lit at new moon, had already set; the Sun sat 32° below the horizon.
The name and the places
- Born in
- Owensboro, United States
- Lives in
- Lexington · Newark
Wikidata records Lexington and Newark as Joe Survant's home. It is a public record rather than our own research, and it can lag behind a move.
No birth time is on record, so no astrocartography map can be drawn for Joe Survant: the lines move about fifteen degrees of longitude an hour. Shared Places can still draw yours.
How unusual Joe's chart is
Chart pattern score
71 / 100 · Rare
5-planet stellium in Libra · A bowl chart · No Earth planets
An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.
Score your own chart →Libra Sun
Libra SunBeauty matters. So does balance.
Joe Survant's Sun was in Libra for the whole of October 9, 1942, so no birth time is needed to settle it.
What Libra means →Water Horse
Water HorseOpen road, open heart.
Joe Survant was born on October 9, 1942, which falls in a Water Horse year of the Chinese calendar.
What the Horse means →Life Path 8
Life Path 8Power, and the bill for it.
Joe Survant's birth date, October 9, 1942, reduces to Life Path 8 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.
What Life Path 8 means →What stands out in Joe’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Joe Survant's date-only chart is Venus sextile Pluto, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Neptune, sit together in Libra, which astrologers call a stellium.
- Seven of the ten planets fall in Cardinal signs, making Cardinal the strongest modality in this chart.
- Joe Survant combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the mental plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Strategist.
Joe’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 3° to 16° Libra depending on the hour.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.
Placements
Tap one to light it on the wheel.
The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
stableVenussextilePluto0.3° to 1.5° orb
Joe’s affections open doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSunconjunctionMars1.1° to 1.4° orb
Joe’s core identity and drive act as one.
stableVenustrineUranus1.3° to 2.5° orb
Joe’s affections flow straight into their need for freedom.
stableSunconjunctionMercury1.9° to 4.0° orb
stableMarstrineSaturn1.9° to 2.6° orb
stableUranussextilePluto2.8° orb
stableSuntrineSaturn2.9° to 3.9° orb
stableMercuryconjunctionMars3.3° to 5.1° orb
stableUranustrineNeptune4.0° orb
stableMercurysquareJupiter4.1° to 5.3° orb
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune5.3° to 6.5° orb
stableVenustrineSaturn5.6° to 6.8° orb
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth0 of 10
- Air8 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal7 of 10
- Fixed1 of 10
- Mutable2 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Air leads this chart, with no planets in Earth signs.
Joe’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.
⚷ ChironLeo 25°47′ (moves 0.10° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
⚳ Ceres ℞Pisces 22°47′ (moves 0.18° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
♡ ErosAquarius 6°58′ (moves 0.15° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
⚕ HygieaLeo 6°13′ (moves 0.24° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
⚸ Black Moon LilithCancer 4°42′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
- Eros opposition Pluto 0.1°
- Hygiea sextile Venus 0.1°
- Ceres trine Jupiter 0.6°
- Eros trine Venus 0.8°
- Hygiea conjunction Pluto 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith square Venus 1.4°
- Hygiea sextile Uranus 2.0°
- Eros trine Uranus 2.7°
Joe’s dominant planets
1. ♀ Venus13 pts
rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects
2. ☿ Mercury6 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 4 major aspects
3. ☉ Sun4 pts
disposes Pluto; 3 major aspects
Configurations in Joe’s chart
Stellium in Libra · Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, NeptuneThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.
- Mercury quintile Pluto 0.3°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Uranus 0.5°
- Venus quintile Jupiter 0.7°
More people like Joe
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Born in United States
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More charts like Joe’s
Fellow Libra suns
- Herbert JonesAmerican basketball player (born 1998)
- Jakob PöltlAustrian basketball player (born 1995)
- Robert Williams IIIAmerican basketball player (born 1997)
Born in Horse years
- Rita HayworthAmerican actress
- Janet JacksonAmerican singer, songwriter, dancer and actress
- Maria Göppert MayerGerman-born American theoretical physicist
Also born on October 9
- John Lennon1940
- Boris Nemtsov1959
- Bella Hadid1996
- Patson Daka1998
- Ben Shelton2002
- Tyler James Williams1992
Fellow Yin Wood day masters
- Zandra RhodesBritish fashion designer
- Diamond PlatnumzTanzanian artist, dancer, philanthropist and businessman
- Rick OwensAmerican fashion designer
Other Libra Horse charts
- Zheng QinwenChinese tennis player
- Michele Morrone AlgoesItalian actor, singer, and fashion designer
- Judy SheindlinAmerican television judge
- RossaIndonesian singer and actress
Other Evergreen Strategists
- Andre Jones Jr.American football player (born 1998)
- Courtland SuttonAmerican football player (born 1995)
- Chop RobinsonAmerican football player (born 2003)
- Ka'imi FairbairnAmerican football player (born 1994)
Famous people with Life Path 8
- Julianne HoughAmerican dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and songwriter (born 1988)
- Camille GrammerAmerican dancer, model, actress, producer, writer, and television personality (born 1968)
- Caleb FollowillAmerican singer
From the journal: What is feng shui? · Moon sign vs rising sign vs Sun sign
Joe’s cards
Computed from October 9, 1942. Tap to flip.
Birth tarot card
The StarAsterNym identity card
The Evergreen StrategistWestern zodiac
LibraChinese zodiac
Horse 午Life Path
8 · Achiever♀ Ruled by Venus
Copper Cu
The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Wood.
Year
壬
yang Water
午
Horse
Fire
roots & early life
Month
庚
yang Metal
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
乙
yin Wood
未
Goat
Earth
you & partnership
Where this comes from, and how it is worked out
Joe’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q141193815 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.
Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Joe Survant.
Quick answers about Joe Survant’s chart
- How old is Joe Survant?
- Joe Survant is 84 years old, born October 9, 1942 in Owensboro, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Joe Survant?
- Joe Survant is a Libra: born October 9, 1942, which puts the Sun in Libra for the whole of that day.
- What is Joe Survant's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Horse, with the Water element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 9, 1942 birth.
- What is Joe Survant's Life Path number?
- Life Path 8, calculated in numerology.
- What is Joe Survant's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Leo at 25°. Position from JPL Horizons.
- Where is Joe Survant's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Cancer at 4°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Joe Survant's dominant planet?
- Venus, on AsterNym's dominance score (13 points: rules the Sun sign, Libra; in its own sign, Libra; disposes Sun, Mercury, Mars, Neptune; 4 major aspects). Mercury is second and Sun third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
